Yay! Ok, 23. I can't come up with a quote - but there's a section in one of Neil Gaiman's short stories that strikes a chord with me.
'Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take.' Calum MacInnes looked down at me and said nothing. Then, 'You are wrong. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one only, and that way is treacherous and hard, and if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.'
I obsess about concepts like "truth". I've grown up with a strong story-teller tradition, and I believe in a - shall we say - dynamic translation of reality. I'm forever trying to find the balance between being imaginative and being a liar. :P
Nr 20 is difficult!
1. Puns. They say its the lowest form of humour, but there you go :P
2. Bad translation word games! Dad and I excel at this. It's the best thing about knowing both Finnsh and Swedish. For example, the word "tändstickor" (matches) in our house is now known as "kommstickor" (camesticks... which doesn't mean anything, and yet sounds dirty in English, and isn't that just weird O.o) because the Finnish of the word is "tulitikut", where "tuli" means both "fire" and "to come" in the past tense. Uhm... see? Funny. No, really. It is. We have tonnes of these.
3. A good 50-70% of my conversations with Lillanna. Luckily, she writes the best ones down, so we have a collection on our wall of such jewels as: "I have a beef with you!" "Well that's good! Because I only had a bone to pick!" and "Snow good. Summer bad." (Though what she was trying to say was "'S no good. Some 're bad.")
4. Stand up. I love stand up. André Wickström especially. Oh, oh! And this Youtube clip
5. Youtube clips with laughing babies. I'm like a moron, I laugh when they laugh, I can't even control it. It's embarrassing.
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'Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take.'
Calum MacInnes looked down at me and said nothing. Then,
'You are wrong. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one only, and that way is treacherous and hard, and if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.'
I obsess about concepts like "truth". I've grown up with a strong story-teller tradition, and I believe in a - shall we say - dynamic translation of reality. I'm forever trying to find the balance between being imaginative and being a liar. :P
Nr 20 is difficult!
1. Puns. They say its the lowest form of humour, but there you go :P
2. Bad translation word games! Dad and I excel at this. It's the best thing about knowing both Finnsh and Swedish. For example, the word "tändstickor" (matches) in our house is now known as "kommstickor" (camesticks... which doesn't mean anything, and yet sounds dirty in English, and isn't that just weird O.o) because the Finnish of the word is "tulitikut", where "tuli" means both "fire" and "to come" in the past tense. Uhm... see? Funny. No, really. It is. We have tonnes of these.
3. A good 50-70% of my conversations with Lillanna. Luckily, she writes the best ones down, so we have a collection on our wall of such jewels as:
"I have a beef with you!"
"Well that's good! Because I only had a bone to pick!"
and
"Snow good. Summer bad." (Though what she was trying to say was "'S no good. Some 're bad.")
4. Stand up. I love stand up. André Wickström especially. Oh, oh! And this Youtube clip
5. Youtube clips with laughing babies. I'm like a moron, I laugh when they laugh, I can't even control it. It's embarrassing.